265. Jane Sherman proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing ten pewter plates, value 5 s. and a sheet, value 5 s. the property of Caleb Smith proceedingsvictim , May the 2d .

Mrs. Collins sworn.

Q. Are you any relation to Mr. Caleb Smith < no role > ?

Collins. He married my mother.

[The plates and sheet were produced.]

Q. Do you know these goods to be Mr. Smith's?

Collins. I know the sheet to be Mr. Caleb Smith < no role > 's.

Q. Do you know the plates to be Mr. Smith's?

Collins. As to this plate I am very sure, because it was my mother's when she was a widow; and as to the others, I do believe them to be our plates, for we have others of the same mark now; we bought them at a sale.

Q. Where do you live?

Collins. Mr. Smith keep the n Coffee-house by the Royal Exchange .

Q. What is the Prisoner ?

Collins . She was our servant.

Q. When did she come to live with you?

Collins . The Monday after the fire .

Q. How long did she live with your father?

Collins. Till the 27th of April.

Q. How came she to go then?

Collins. Because we thought she was not honest: we turned her away on suspicion, before the things were found; we found them at Mr. Worral's, a pawn-broker.

Mr. Glover . I am a lodger at Mr. Smith's; the Prisoner was suspected of being dishonest; I had missed some of my own things, and went to enquire after them, and these plates were at Mr. Worral's , and I heard the Prisoner say, that she took them out of Mr. Smith's house, and pawned them at Mr. Worral's.

Prisoner . I did not say, Mr. Glover , that I knew any thing of the plates .

John Worral < no role > . These plates and sheet were brought to me on the 19th of April, by Jane Sherman < no role > the Prisoner.

Q. Where do you live?

Worral. In Houndsditch. I have known the Prisoner seven or eight years, and I have taken things in of her several times.

Q. Was she ever a house-keeper in that time?

Worral. No: I knew her as a servant.

Q. Did you take these things in all together?

Worral . Yes: I took the plates and sheet in all together. Mr. Glover came to me to enquire for a shirt, and some other things, and I brought these plates down without being asked for them.

Q. to Mr. Glover. Have you paid the money for these things?

Glover . Yes, I have; because Mr. Worral was so very civil as to bring them down without their being asked for.

Prisoner . Pray, Miss , did not my mistress say, she did not know all her plates?

Collins. She did not know them all.

Guilty, 10 d .

[Whipping. See summary.]